My mind is melting at the realization that (the male) half of society apparently thought we were playing happy homemaker with our Barbies all this time💀
YMMV and my friends’ Barbies lived SUPER varied lives but… that wasn’t one of them
People love to claim to we can’t change people’s behavior.
But did you know the idea of “designated drivers” is only normal in America thanks to the work of a group of Harvard scholars?
Here’s 5 reasons they succeeded.
We don't know much about how people dealt with their periods in the past, because due to taboos, it often wasn't written down. This means one of the most direct accounts of dealing with periods in the 18th century comes from... a murder trial.
As a smug European, I definitely used to think that Celsius is just a superior scale for measuring temperature. After 21 years in North America, though, I definitely concede that Fahrenheit is simply better and more intuitive for temperature.
Not many magazine stories have me yearning for more words – especially ones about someone sitting on a train by themselves for three days. But I got lost in this one from @JordanSalama19 and didn't want it to end. https://t.co/tjL6bgTpcJ
Reminder that Thomas Jefferson who helped write the Declaration of Independence also said we should rewrite the constitution every 20 years so that dead people wouldn’t rule over modern society.
Omicron BA.5 is really, really bad. There will be no public policy shift to deal with it. We are left on our own to do individual "risk assessment" during a pandemic with an evolving virus that can evade previous immunity and cause long-term disease. This is hell.
"So maybe that’s just what today is, holding our breath and being aware of the worst, but willfully, stubbornly holding on to the best." #bringbghome#brittneygriner https://t.co/s4Ycy5NXGL
I can tell they’ve had pronoun training at my hospital because the check in guy said “Sir, over here. Oh! No, uh, they?” And the lady at the next cube said, “No gendered honorifics or antiquated respectability phrases, KEVIN!!!!”